Lewis Hamilton posted the quickest time in a dramatic qualifying session at the Spanish Grand Prix overnight. But more drama was to follow, with Hamilton now stripped of his pole position and forced to start from the back of the grid. At the end of the session Hamilton’s McLaren ran out of fuel and the [...]

This futuristic and rather cool looking concept rendering shows what Formula One cars could look like in the future. The image has been sourced from iacoski.com, the creator says he began work on the closed-cockpit concept after Felipe Massa’s freak accident at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Turns out it was a prophetic move, too. [...]

Incoming Volkswagen Motorsport boss Jost Capito has quickly earned his stripes by becoming the latest VW executive to declare the company has no interest in Formula One. Instead, the German giant will focus its attention on its Polo R WRC program, due to start competing in 2013. Even a radical change to F1′s regulations in [...]

In addition to the still pictures Ferrari gave to mark their tribute to Gilles Villeneuve here’s a selection of videos to go with. We start with Jacques Villeneuve’s drive of the Ferrari 312 T4 at Fiorano. We also recommend you check out this old TV interview with Gilles (embedding of clip has been disabled).

Like, really! Those are the words of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher who is telling the world he thinks the 2012 spec Pirelli tyres are cabbage. Speaking about the tyres to CNN the 43-year-old said: “I just think that they’re playing a much too big effect because they are so peaky and so special that [...]

Yesterday, 8 May, marked the thirtieth anniversary of Gilles Villeneueve’s death. He was killed in an accident during qualifying at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Ferrari honoured the memory of the flamboyant legend by inviting his son, Jacques, to Fiorano to drive the same 312 T4 that his father drove to three Grand Prix wins [...]

It’s almost time for the 2012 Nürburgring 24 hour race—one of the world’s truly great endurance races. For us, it’s a bigger highlight than the Le Mans 24 hour. So, in less than two weeks from now we’ll be conducting a vigil here at AUSmotive HQ while the race is underway (19–20 May). To prepare [...]

Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro is in discussions to play Ayrton Senna in a Hollywood biopic. Santoro revealed the news in an interview with Collider. At this stage the movie has not been signed off by the Senna family and until that happens Santoro says he won’t agree to be involved. However, you get the feeling [...]

It’s of no surprise that focus on the future of Mark Webber has remained strong since new Ferrari rumours re-emerged last week. At first Mark seemed coy on the rumour, but did later deny the speculation outright, telling ESPN, “I haven’t signed anything.” That prompted Christian Horner, Red Bull Team Principal, to pour cold water [...]

After we got that amazing photo of Jackie Stewart at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix our research led us to this fascinating highlights package of the race. It has a bit of everything, typical F1 politics messing around with qualifying, a fiery accident, close racing and a runaway winner thanks to a high rate of [...]

Thanks to AUSmotive reader Aaron for sending in this amazing photo of Jackie Stewart at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix. At the time Stewart was the defending World Champion after safely tucking away the first of his three championships in the previous year. In the photo above the aftermath of a collision between BRM driver [...]

Ahead of next weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix we bring you this track guide for the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. The video has been produced by our new favourite F1 team Sauber Motorsport. Kamui Kobayashi is at the wheel of the C31, while Sergio Perez calls the shots from a chopper above the track. Two [...]

Two things we like very much here at AUSmotive are F1 and Chelsea FC. Now, thanks to a new deal with Sauber Motorsport, the two have become interlinked. Why, we’re not so sure, but who are we to argue. Keen observers will have noticed the Saubers running “Out of the Blue” and “True Blue” signage [...]

Many of our readers are very happy that BMW Motorsport brought the M3 back to its roots—DTM racing. So we figured, in addition to our picture gallery from Round 1 of the 2012 series at Hockenheim, you’ll enjoy this series of pics and a couple of videos show the BMW M3 DTM during pitstop practice. [...]

On the final day of testing in Mugello Lotus driver Romain Grosjean repeated his efforts from Day 2 and remained the fastest man around the free flowing 5.245km circuit. Grosjean’s time was set in the afternoon session and the mark of 1:21.035 was the best time recorded over the three days. Fastest in the morning [...]